What is big content? Big content doesn’t just have to come in the form of an ebook. Big content can be an epic blog post. Big content can be a blog post series. An ecourse. An infographic. It can be a series of emails. A video. A series of videos.

These 10 “big content” pieces do just that. And they are some of the best online marketing content resources produced in 2013. In some cases, you may have to surrender your email, but in my opinion they’re worth it.

So, in no particular order, here are the top 10 Big Content Resources of 2013.

The Marketer’s Email Conversion Course

“No two customers are the same. Nor do they act the same on your site…so you shouldn’t send them the same email content.”

An email course sent to you by email. How meta. But in all seriousness, Vero’s 30-day email marketing course will teach you what you need to focus on to send one-to-one emails to your customers.

And it will show you how to optimize your emails as well. Chris will send you 7 emails chocked-full of email marketing tips, tricks and goodness ﻿that will help you increase your open-rates, click-through-rates and conversion-rates. After you finish the email conversion course, every email you send will be that much better.

If that didn’t convince you, here’s the full Email Conversion Course breakdown:

The 30 Greatest Lead Generation Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Did you know that only 1 in 10 marketers feel their lead generation campaigns are effective? Are you one of the 9 marketers who are not satisfied with their lead gen efforts? If so, download this ebook.

Hubspot is the king of lead generation. The tactics and strategies in this ebook have been tested over the past 7 years and have been used by 8,000+ HubSpot customers to generate more than 9.8 million leads in the past year. Yowza! That’s a lot of leads.

In this 42-page ebook, you’ll specifically learn:

What makes the best lead-generating content

What drives killer landing page performance

How to create offers that are impossible to ignore

Secret optimization tips with A/B testing advice

The Ultimate Guide to Conversion Centered Design

Oli coined the term conversion-centered design (CCD), a discipline targeted specifically at designing experiences that achieve a single business goal. This is where landing pages come in. Learn (and then apply) everything you can about CCD to help increase your landing page conversion rates. This 68-page guide will show you the critical role that design and psychology play in increasing conversions.

The Blueprint of a Modern Marketing Campaign

By now, you know that content marketing is key to any inbound marketing strategy. It’s been a major buzz word throughout this past year.

But understanding the importance of content marketing and executing a streamlined strategy are two very different things. Did you know that, according to the ebook, 60-70% of content produced by B2B marketing goes unused? This stat proves there is some serious disconnect between content creators and content consumers.

This ebook will show you how to create a unified content strategy to achieve your specific marketing goals. Here’s the ToC:

Acquiring Customers with Email

The ebook was inspired by the success of the Help Scout newsletter, which turned into a growing community of 35,000+ subscribers.

Packed with research and case studies, it will show you why email is still the most powerful way for you to communicate with your audience and build a relationship over time. Then, once it has successfully proven the value and power of email marketing, the ebook will teach you proven email marketing tactics, from simple opt-in form tweaks to email copywriting tricks.

The Advanced Guide to Content Marketing

Calling all content marketers far and wide. This guide is the most extensive and detailed guide of advanced content marketing techniques (it really is).

It is full of tactical, immediately actionable ideas that you can implement. It looks slick. It’s logical order is easy to follow. It has useful screenshots and diagrams. And a ton of actionable to-do lists. Best of all, it has no content gate. It is free as free can be.

This massive infographic guide will teach you about all things content marketing, including how to:

Build a strong foundation

Plan your content for maximum productivity

Learn to write content like a pro

Overcome common content marketing roadblocks

Optimize for search: The other side of content creation

Promote your content to increase traffic, engagement, and sales

The 2013 YouTube Marketing Guide

YouTube. Not only is it the largest video site, it’s also the world’s second-largest search engine.

How does Zappos drive more than 250,000 visits a year to its website from YouTube? More importantly, how can you successfully market on YouTube? This isn’t an ultimate guide in the ebook sense. Rather it’s an epic blog post with a combined 1,352 social shares and a whopping 69 comments and counting! That’s some serious social proof. The in-depth post is your guide for marketing on YouTube and will cover:

The Landing Page Conversion Course

You know that you should be using landing pages, but you might not know the best way to go about it. The landing page conversion course is the perfect way to take you from zero to hero in a few weeks.

In this 11-part course, our resident landing page expert, Oli Gardner, will walk you through everything you need to know to create high-converting landing pages with some expert tips and advice from some of the best online marketers around, including Peep Laja, Michael Aagaard, Rand Fishkin, Rich Page and more.

And that’s not all. It also includes step-by-step instructional videos so that you can follow along and create your own landing pages as you go.

About The Author

Stefanie GrieserStefanie is the Events Strategist at Unbounce where she strategizes, executes, and measures events to educate online marketers about landing pages & conversion. A digital marketer at heart, she previously managed Unbounce's online social community & blog. Find her on Twitter @smgrieser» More blog posts by Stefanie Grieser

I think ‘big content’ gives you a chance to offer TRULY USEFUL (read: meaty) information for potential and current customers. It builds a whole lot of trust.

And you’re very welcome Chris. Your lifecycle email course was awesome and it definitely deserved to be on the list. ! Looking forward to what other big content Vero has coming down the pipeline for 2014. As always, keep me in the loop :)

Hi Stefanie Grieser you are providing some great stuff and marketing tools for users and i am using 2 and 3 of them and rest i can applied in coming time, these are very helpful.

Stefanie,
We are frankly overwhelmed with everything everyone has to say about content marketing and storytelling, but we decided to weigh-in ourselves albeit a shorter list than most. Let me know what you think:

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Jon

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Johnsays:

Another excellent article Stephanie. I’ve been on your blog for the past hour reading your work and I had to bookmark it. You honestly can’t learn enough, marketing is always evolving and you have to keep on top of it. I’ll be sure to check in on these resources for marketing. Thanks again, you’re such a great writer and very experienced. I’d recommend your blog to anyone.